The new Broadway cast album of the Kennedy Center's acclaimed revival of FOLLIES, released November 29th on PS Classics, enjoyed the best first-week sales of any Sondheim cast album since the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Passion in 1994. With 6308 units sold domestically (according to Nielsen Soundscan), FOLLIES vaulted to #1 on the Billboard Cast Album chart. It also finished at #8 in Top Internet Sales, and at #12 in Top Independent Albums. The album is now available in stores, online, and at the label's website, www.psclassics.com.

{module ad_left_body}The expansive two-disc set, produced by label co-founders Tommy Krasker (who has helmed 14 Sondheim cast albums to date) and Philip Chaffin, represents a high point in the ongoing collaboration between composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and PS Classics, which has released 11 Sondheim discs, including Grammy Award-nominated cast recordings of Assassins, Company, A Little Night Music and Sondheim onSondheim, plus its acclaimed Sondheim Sings series. From the haunting soprano sax solo that begins the show to the ghostly “Hey, up there” strain that ends it, the New Broadway Cast Recording of Follies contains nearly 110 minutes of Sondheim and Goldman's masterpiece, a singular FOLLIES experience on disc.

FOLLIES features a book by James Goldman and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The production is directed by Eric Schaeffer with choreography by Warren Carlyle and music direction by James Moore. With a 28–piece orchestra, FOLLIES features a cast of 41 and stars two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer, four-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell as Phyllis Rogers Stone, two-time Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein as Buddy Plummer, three-time Emmy Award nominee Ron Raines as Benjamin Stone and Olivier Award winner Elaine Paige as Carlotta Campion.

It was also announced this week that the Kennedy Center’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of FOLLIES will transfer to the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles for six weeks only, May 3 through June 9, 2012. The opening is scheduled for May 9.

PS Classics has preserved many Sondheim productions including Sondheim on Sondheim, Frogs, Road Show and the most recent revivals of A Little NightMusic, Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Pacific Overtures and Assassins.

Founded in 2000 by Tommy Krasker & Philip Chaffin, and a six-time Grammy nominee (for its cast albums of Assassins, Nine: The Musical, Grey Gardens, Company, A Little Night Music and Sondheim on Sondheim), PS Classics celebrates the heritage of Broadway and American popular song through its award-winning cast recordings; solo albums by such luminaries asMaureen McGovern, Victoria Clark, Jessica Molaskey and Christine Andreas; and recordings drawn from rare sound archives, including “Sondheim Sings.” Its most recent releases include solo albums by Liz & Ann Hampton Callaway and Kate Baldwin, and cast recordings of A Minister's Wife, Death Takes a Holiday, and Vernon Duke & Ogden Nash’s long-lost Sweet Bye and Bye.